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Agred there is media overkill wherever you look. Still I think the general response (except by the media) has been correct. Influenza pandemics do happen and they can kill millions as a version of H1N1 did after WWI.
Me I am not quaking in my boots at this point!
See this.
I love this cartoon as it is so true, I heard the girl in the next room being sick last night and my first thought was not poor girl I hope she is all right, but Mmmmm, did she fly in from Mexico.
Terribly I know, but this fear factor can so easily snowball and for no good reason, not least because if it was a pandemic it would not matter where she had flown in from, if you get my drift.
jams. the chances of me getting the flue is quite slim, so I am not worried at this point either....
Renegade. a very good article. I especially like the conclusion... thanks for the link.
Mick, take lots of "cod liver oil", "vitamin A, C and D", sleep well, stay away from stress and you will be just fine. :)
I though the cartoon was extremely funny too...
Is this the start of a conspiracy against people who sneeze/cough? Did Robitussin and the 'pharmaceutical' community not receive any bailout 'injection' from the 'people'?
My understanding is that even even changed the Snow White story to six dwarfs, firing Sneezy...
I meant to say 'Disney'
:)
TT, I do not know why the cartoon captured my interest so much but maybe the innocents of pigglet was just utterly cute and the honesty of piglet was simply hilarious.... :)
Strolling through our village the other day, villagers woulde ask my friend Tetrapilotomos: 'Why do you wear a mask?'
Spake Tetrapilotomos: 'I was sure I'd meet pigs.'
The cartoon is glorious, Nevin. :)
I'm sorry but this is no laughing matter. I'm a retired ICU nurse who was called back to duty, in 2003, during the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak in Toronto. It came from Asia. Thousands of people were affected. Apart from caring for a great number of very ill people, we lost 32 patients, including a nurse. The general public is not aware on how seriously, sometimes heroically, medical staff handles the risk factors of a possible major epidemy in a city, or a country. To institute a quarantine in all hospitals, to wear isolation equipments, to cancel all visitors are difficult tasks. Yet, it's because it's done that millions of people don't die, as Jams reminded us happened after WW1
For 8 months, after Toronto was delared free of all SARS infection, I refrained from visiting my grandchild who was born during that period in Winnipeg.
I strongly believe that we should take all precautions when there is the possibility of a global infection for which there is no vaccine at the moment, and no specific cure. Older people and young children are very much at risk.
We should also thank the health care workers who are in the midddle of it all, doing their best to contain the infection.
Your cartoon is very appropriate, Nevin. Thank you for the space you provide. I hope and pray that very few people die. Even just one, is one too many.
Claudia,
You've got to be kidding me!
To put things in perspective, many more deaths occur from regular flu, or malaria, or TB (where the 'spread' is more viral and dangerous) than with Swine Flu...
Here's (Dr) Ron Paul speaking about the 'vaccine' against the flu is being the problem vs the problem itself...Let's not get so carried away that we stop living and start voluntarily giving away our civil liberties at every corner of an imminent 'threat'
Ultimately, all people die sometime in their life. Maybe we can cure 'death'???
Nevin -
I apologise for sharing my Canadian experience with your readers. I don't live in your country. I don't know what you call giving away "your civil liberties". I don't know the hysteria your media is spreading. This gentleman, Ron Paul, is saying a few things that, as a nurse, I would not agree with. But he is not one of my politicians, and I don't have to worry about his influence.
Obviously, there are deaths (from malaria, TB, regular flu) that could be avoided by taking better care of those situations. But we don't have to neglect a possible danger because it's worse elsewhere, or because (anyhow) we're all going to die one day of something.
I truly appreciate everything my government is doing presently. Good luck to all of you. And goodbye.
Claudia, please do not apologize for sharing your view point or your Canadian perspective. It is important to understand an issue from all sides. Thank you for your constructive comments.
What TT is trying to say is that in the US, the media hype is so exaggerated that it is kind of getting a little ridiculous... But no illness or epidemic is a laughing matter. Especially as a nurse you have probably seen the worst.
In my kids school I have heard from parents all kinds of ridiculous reasons why the flu is spreading so fast. One parent seems to think Al Qaeda is behind it, one parent said it's the Mexican's having sex with pigs... so on and so forth...
There is so much misunderstanding and hysteria in general....
These panicky reactions are more likely to increase public cynicism in the long run, rather than do anything to tackle disease. :)
Speaking of Canada...
All I say is that we should spend our time headlining the 'other' and 'more important' issues of the planet in crisis, more akin to a pandemic, than some swine flu outbreak... like 'the economy,' 'the war and the killing of innocents,' and other issues such as the 'threat to civil liberties...' which Canadians should also worry about. That is not just an 'American' problem.
A lot more people die from the common flu. But we don't quarantine the entire population with misleading and misguided headlines as if the world is coming to an end.
Nevin - Thank you for your proverbial hospitality. :)
TT - You have the last word. Forever, and ever. Amen.
I loved the cartoon.
People are now a lot more germ phobic than when I was a child. Every thing they advertise on TV is anti-bacterial. Anti-bacterial is the new buzz word.
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